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INFORMATION Village Activities Hire of Rooms Village (All held in the chapel) Penpoll Methodist Church Meetings, functions, parties etc WI: 2nd Monday in the month contact Bridget 862662 2.00pm: Sally Brocklehurst 864717 Mobile Library Coffee Stop: 1st Friday in the Saturdays—fortnightly View month, 10.00—11.30am; except Jan Penpoll Bridge & Point Green Sale of coffee, cakes, preserves etc Home Library Service Lunch Club: one Wednesday Angela Spurgin, Truro Library each month, dates vary. Contact 0800 032 2345 (freephone) Betty 863902 / Bridget 862662 [email protected] Corlink ROCKs—Right On Church for Taxi service to nearest Kids: every Sunday 10.30—11.30 appropriate bus route am in the school rooms Sept— Tel: 0845 8505556 June. Contact Penny 862624 www.cornishkey.com Bus Service B*olders —8-16 year olds. www.truronian.co.uk Times vary. Contact Kath 864415 01872 273453 Café Church —every Sunday Point Quay Association 10:45-11-30 am Sept-June (11-18 Tez Smith 865413 years). Contact Vicky 864729 www.pointquayassociation.org.uk Restronguet Creek Society Parish Office Antony Lane 870123 Opening Hours www.restronguetcreeksociety.org Monday 9.30 am—12.30pm Wednesday 1.30 pm—4.30 pm Friday 9.30 am—12.30pm Village View Editors Ewan McClymont 862624 Issue No 32 At other times please leave a Tez Smith 865413 Easter 2010 message — 863333. Nicki John 864750 From Penpoll Printed by Mid Cornwall Printing Methodist Church 16 The Village Magazine for Point & Penpoll in what we now have. Vision – communi- Message cation. I really believe this was a God- given vision. God communicates with us From... in all manner of ways! God has a mes- sage for us, and if we don’t receive it one This morning I had a few, what way, another will be tried until it is re- seemed to be, silly moments! On several ceived. As we journey through Lent, re- occasions, the telephone rang, I picked up calling the forty days that Jesus spent in the handset, spoke, and had part of a the wilderness at the beginning of three ALMOND’S conversation, then ‘it went dead!’ The years of ministry, he was tempted; all the Maintenance MOBILE NEWSAGENTS caller hadn’t hung up, but I could no temptations were manifestations of the Repairs TEL. 01872 870477 longer discern what he/she was saying. overall temptation to avoid the cross, and, Renovations Because I didn’t know if I could be heard, ultimately, this is the same temptation that Extensions I had a conversation to the effect, “I can’t NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES we face. DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR hear you, I don’t know, whether, or not, We are inundated with news of WE PROVIDE A FRIENDLY AND you can hear me, so I’m going to hang up! catastrophes and examples of human EFFICIENT SERVICE—WHATEVER THE Goodbye.” Some of the conversations WEATHER, 364 DAYS OF THE YEAR failings. We don’t always recognise the Tel: 01872 862361 were some that could be attempted at extent to which we are part of the prob- some other time, but one or two were to 01209 716411 PLEASE CALL TO DISCUSS YOUR lem. We are tempted to compare our- REQUIREMENTS exchange important information. We could selves with others and to feel that we are get round some of those by using e-mail, nowhere near as bad as some. The prob- and, at least, I then had the information in lem is that we don’t always get the mes- front of me rather than trying to jot down sage due to poor or even non-existent notes. Communication. It is so important channels of communication. You see, we to keep the channels open. And just as should actually be comparing ourselves David Vowles important as the channels is the content; with Jesus, who was without sin. But we Interior and Exterior and just as important as the content is the don’t seem to get that message. meaning and its value. No, Jesus had to go to the Cross Painting and Decorating As I write this article, we are on to show us the message, the message of the home straight in Lent, as you read it, it the love of God. He didn’t need to say a The Old Counthouse may well be Easter. On Mothering Sunday word. He just hung there and died, for us. Creegbrawse at Penpoll Chapel, we celebrated some- End of story. End of story? Never. Then thing else. We celebrated the refurbish- came Easter Day. Alleluia, Jesus Christ St Day ment of the Upper Room. Just over a year rose from the dead, for us. What a Sav- Cornwall ago, some of our young people visited the iour. What a message, and it is for all of young people in Truro Methodist Church us. Have a great Easter, why not share it TR16 5QF (TMC) and their Revolution Cafe; they with us? Love and blessings were so impressed that they shared the Tel 01209 822575 possibility of something similar at Penpoll. The seeds were sown at the (inevitable) Church Council, and the result is a ‘real wow!’ It is amazing how the vision that Reverend Margaret Barnes those young people had has materialised 2 15 Chill Out Zone page 4 Table Tennis 11 GARDEN SERVICES WI 5 Winter Witness 11 Domestic and Commercial Resident Focus 6-7 Llama Alert 12 Gardens and Grounds Memory Lane 8-9 Point & Penpoll Regatta 12 Grass cutting, care of lawns, Who You’ve Helped 10 Adverts 13-15 orchards and paddocks etc. Help for Haiti 10 Local Information 16 Strimming and Brush-cutting WHAT’S ON AT PENPOLL METHODIST CHURCH Hedge trimming and reduction April Tree Felling (NPTC qualified) Fri 2 nd Good Friday walk: Meet 9.15am Carnon Downs Meth- Tree and Shrub Pruning odist Church, refreshments at Penpoll MC finishing at Pressure Washing and Fencing Feock Church with hot cross buns All aspects of garden and Sun 4 th Easter Sunday service conducted by The Revd Canon house care Dr Stephen B Dawes, MA at 10.30am Fibreglass repairs and general Fri 9 th Coffee Stop 10.00 – 11.30pm boat maintenance Wed 14 th Lunch Club 12.00 noon Tel. 01872 870400 Mob. 07974 563857 May Fri 7 th Coffee Stop 10.00 – 11.30am Wed 12 th Lunch Club 12.00 noon Loe Beach Café ReReRe-Re ---OpeningOpening Thursday 1 ststst April June 2010 @ 10.00 am A physiotherapy Fri 4 th Coffee Stop 10.00 – 11.30am th Open daily for breakfasts, Wed 16 Lunch Club 12.00 noon th lunches & afternoon teas practice that Sun 20 ROCKs service led by Andrew Gendall at 10.30am th FREE : 1 x cup of coffee or tea, Sat 26 Regatta weekend – Chapel stall on Point Quay th with valid car-parking ticket! specialises in Sun 27 Regatta service conducted by Revd Margaret Barnes Roskilly Ice Cream at 10.30am stroke and July Warm Friendly atmosphere nd Fri 2 Coffee Stop 10.00 – 11.30am th Loe Beach Regatta neurological disorders Wed 14 Lunch Club 12.00 noon ththth Jazz Night --- 12 June August th Jazz Quartet, Hog Roast, Fri 6 Coffee Stop 10.00 – 11.30am Skinners Bar NO LUNCH CLUB in August Tickets: Adults £8.50 children: September £3.50 (hot dog & juice) rd All Loe Beach Café enquiries / Movement Solutions Fri 3 Coffee Stop 10.00 – 11.30am Wed 15 th Lunch Club 12.00 noon bookings: 01872 864 433 01872 241956 14 3 Chill Out Zone Opening 2010 Tea and cake was the order of the day at the official opening of the new café and ‘chill out’ zone upstairs at the chapel. After several months of DIY, there were smiles all round as Revd Margaret Barnes dedicated the new facilities and Senior Steward, Iris Crocker, formally declared them open. The new flooring was laid just in time for remains multifunctional. The young peo- a hastily convened ceremony, to mini- ple who initiated the makeover were mise disruption to the many groups that clearly delighted with the finished result, currently use the rooms. and expressed their thanks to the The new layout has been de- Church Council for agreeing to fund the signed to provide a comfortable and project. intimate atmosphere in contrast to the The upstairs room and coffee more public rooms downstairs, whilst bar are available for use by the whole choosing furnishings that can easily be community – enquiries to Bridget King- cleared to the sides to ensure the room ston, 862662. 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Quite a few took up our Obama, Grace, the Dial-a-Llama is pic- invitation and were treated to piano du- tured here strolling through Point with Institute ets, well known songs and poems with a her retinue including Jaime, on horse- new twist and finally the choir put to- back.